Fig. 1From: Milk microbiome in dairy cattle and the challenges of low microbial biomass and exogenous contaminationExperimental design and sample workflow from milk collection to the final 16S rRNA gene sequencing analysis. Samples included in the final analysis were subject to filtration based on 16S rRNA gene qPCR counts, 16S rRNA gene sequence counts and an exogenous contamination screen. Drying off = D, Calving = C. This Figure was created using BioRender.comBack to article page